What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Auchmantle Fell, the Muckle Cairn as Burial Cairn (bronze Age), Cinerary Urn (bronze Age). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Bronze Age burial cairn, likely dating to the late second millennium BCE. Its presence indicates prehistoric funerary practices and the use of cinerary urns in the region during the Bronze Age.
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Places near here
Auchmantle FellCairnfield (later Prehistoric) · 171 yd
CraigbowerCairnfield (later Prehistoric), Enclosure (period Unknown) · 790 yd
AuchieFarmstead (post Medieval), Field System (post Medieval), Rig and Furrow (post Medieval) · 1099 yd
Pinwherrie FarmFarmstead (post Medieval) · 1.1 mi
Kettle CaldronWaterfall · 1.5 mi
War MemorialMemorial · 1.9 mi
New Luce Memorial HallMemorial · 1.9 mi
Knockiebae PlantationForest · 2.0 mi
Balker WoodForest · 2.2 mi
Lochinch Heritage Estate, Castle Kennedy, Walled GardenWalled Garden (18th Century) · 2.8 mi
Caves of KilhernChambered Cairn (neolithic) · 3.3 mi
Dunragit HouseCastle (medieval)(possible), Country House (18th Century) · 3.4 mi